Well, I’m holding up so well at the 2 times a day my last day’s creatine doses wear off and I come due to take more (staggered, 4 scoops on waking and 2 at bedtime) I guess it’s time to step down a scoop to 3/2
I like the people on Twitter speculating that John Fetterman has been replaced by a double because he doesn’t remind them of old pictures, as if a man previously always scowling coming out smiling were not exactly what you would expect after going to the hospital for treatment of depression
Zoomers all “oh, banning TikTok would be a blow against us” just now realizing what an unpaid sociopolitical debt they’ve run up with everyone else in America
Oh to answer “what’s that one little turbine-edge pinwheel windmill you always see in cutaway shots to signify farm country?”, that thing powers a pump that lifts groundwater up to an above-ground tank for use
Oh to answer “what’s that one little turbine-edge pinwheel windmill you always see in cutaway shots to signify farm country?”, that thing powers a pump that lifts groundwater up to an above-ground tank for use
I kind of wonder how much my aerobic-energy-generation-from-blood-sugar issues ARE what’s being registered as Long Covid-induced diabetes.
Cause after taking creatine to replace with anaerobically-generated energy, the issues do eventually recede and clear up (they come back with new Covid cases, but those clear up too), I fear we might have people injecting insulin after it’s necessary.
Like, John Daly was the drunk redneck shitkicker of otherwise upper class-marked professional golf, but he could really wail a ball, really the significant thing about Tiger Woods in the late ‘90s was he could hit a ball as far as John Daly but with the control of everyone else
Was Happy Gilmore based on him or something? Because I read that description and damn.
Well, I can say it would have been fuckin’ weird to make a 1996 professional golf culture-clash movie while remaining unaware of that '91 rookie.
Daly had an Upper South blue-collar background that fits in with that demographic’s early-90s incorporation into the national mainstream (what, you thought evangelical Christianity, post-Billy Ray Cyrus country music and the NASCAR boom just… happened?), and that same inclusionary moment for the Long Island Jewish kid who’s a troublemaker but loves his bubbe was kind of what Sandler was about, the transposition makes sense
Like, John Daly was the drunk redneck shitkicker of otherwise upper class-marked professional golf, but he could really wail a ball, really the significant thing about Tiger Woods in the late ‘90s was he could hit a ball as far as John Daly but with the control of everyone else
Really you would think ‘woops! Accidentally made my obvious fascist analogues a bunch of physically deformed substance abusing perverts and gender nonconforming decadent schemers who are simultaneously pathetic and contemptible and a sinister and shadowy conspiracy threatening everything that’s good and righteous’ would be a pretty easy mistake to avoid, and yet
Related but distinct to the also incredibly common 'woops! I accidentally made my analogue for fascism an endless horde of literally inhuman alien Others who want nothing more than to overwhelm and destroy the heroes culture and civilization, savage and brutish or uniform and robotic but in either case totally devoid of individuality except for a few cartoonishly malevolent, larger-than-life leaders.’
I’ve long been amused that the place of “Nazis” in American cinema is “disindividuated masses to be brutally exterminated en masse without compunction” even in works where that’s explicitly framed as the moral issue with Nazis
TVTropes is such a weird website because the language (and I guess the ‘culture’) of the site was codified in an extremely specific era of internet use (mid to late aughties), and by members of an extremely specific and insular subgroup (nerds) that it codified all the tropes in what is effectively a dead language. No one talks like that anymore and yet because there’s no renaming or updating, and in the 2000s we thought the future was forever babyyyy etc, it all continues to chug along as part of a world where self-respecting adults use words like “woobie”. It’s remarkable to me because its not a relic or preserved in amber (an online Pompeii like an abandoned geocities page), people are actively using it! Like finding an island where everyone speaks English in the style of Chaucer. I would be just as surprised if a man on the street greeted me “Hail and well met” as if someone in casual conversation deployed the phrase “crowning moment of awesome”.
its just so weird how this post diagnoses the problem without mentioning the actual cause: it wasn’t just nerds it was specifically joss whedon fan nerds particularly centered around Buffy The Vampire Slayer.
the tvtropes people talked/wrote weird compared to general internet users, or even fandom types specifically in 2005 as it started, let alone as it continued to accrete users. expansion brought in wider use of general internet/fandom writing but the core of people really really into buffy in particular and joss whedon in general kept it somewhat discordant against popular usage.
oh man! that explains so much! it sorta follows his lead in many ways; the ideal TVT writer is a fan of the tropes despite believing (sometimes correctly, sometimes Very Not) that they see through them and can identify all the strings being pulled; chauvinistic about Nerd Dialect that was off-putting in its vintage year and anachronistic now; bought-in on the whole “nerd culture” phenom lock stock and barrel, with all the weird reading and writing priorities that come with that; and way, way less progressive than they seem to believe they are. in other words: Joss Whedon.
TVTropes is a monumental temple built to a god that failed, which is beautiful in the abstract and repugnant in the particular. I think that’s where I’ve landed
Appreciating in retrospect that my online Buffy fan community was the Hanniganites on AOL, who thought Alyson Hannigan was neat
